When evil threatens the world, the world calls on Broforce - an under-funded, over-powered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force. Brace your loins with up to four players to run ‘n’ gun as dozens of different bros and eliminate the opposing terrorist forces that threaten our way of life.

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What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“Download the beta version of Broforce and provide invaluable feedback to the Free Lives team in the creation of new bros and new features during development. Updated builds will be delivered each month on the way to a targeted late Summer 2014 launch as players are encouraged to provide feedback on Broforce via the official forums and help shape Broforce into its final, explosive form.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Broforce will be in Early Access through 2014 with the full version ready to dominate in early 2015.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The fully realized Broforce will have a full campaign in addition to online and local mulitplayer modes, deathmatch, explosion runs, a level editor for designing your own battlefields of destruction.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Broforce currently has the first part of the campaign with over a dozen bros to take down a slew of enemies already in place. Online and local mulitplayer modes, deathmatch, explosion runs, a level editor, and custom fan made levels are all function with tweaks and polish planned during the course of Early Access development.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Broforce will be priced the same during Early Access and full release.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Download the beta version of Broforce and provide invaluable feedback to the Free Lives team in the creation of new bros and new features during development. Updated builds will be delivered each month on the way to a targeted early 2015 launch as players are encouraged to provide feedback on Broforce via the official forums and help shape Broforce into its final, explosive form.”

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February 27

Our bros of liberty and justice have found themselves trapped in a deep cave. They don't know what's ahead of them, but they know going up means getting out. Your theme for this Weekend Workshop Brodown is:

BROSCENSION

We want to see you guys using the background art! Take your pick of enemies - aliens or dogs or traps or mooks or all of them. Start your level low and go high, make those explosions look even more awesome with rad backgrounds. VOTE ON GAMEPLAY AND AESTHETICS!

February 20

The Broforce world has been turned downside up by the arrival of screeching acidic slime beats from outer space. Your theme for this Weekend Workshop Brodown is:

FIRST CONTACT

Give everyone a brosome first reveal of the unwelcome interstellar freedom smashers eg. You're crawling under an enemy bunker when you spot an ominous shape lurking in the dark; or You've just crushed 54 terrorists and you come across a strange pulsating egg...
Make it creepy. Make it liberating. Make it yours.

Reviews

“Broforce is pretty much what I had in mind when I invented America.”
George Washington

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About This Game

When evil threatens the world, the world calls on Broforce - an under-funded, over-powered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force. Brace your loins with up to four players to run ‘n’ gun as dozens of different bros and eliminate the opposing terrorist forces that threaten our way of life. Unleash scores of unique weapons and set off incredible chain reactions of fire, napalm, and limbs in the name of freedom.

The Broforce: Deliver your own brand of shock and awe with dozens of bros each with their own unique weaponry and special attacks designed to dispatch freedom across the world.

Bro-Op & Deathmatch: Battle terrorism with up to four players in cooperative mode or sever ties with your bros and face each other in several bombastic competitive modes.

Explosion Run: Join up with other bros to tackle these unique time attack levels under the pressure of exploding terrains and mass chaos.

Fully Destructible Everything: Destructible terrain opens up a slew of strategic options while the abundance of Exploding Red Barrels of Justice™ can literally level the playing field with one shot.

Level Editor: Design your own playground of destruction with a robust level editor and become the envy of all the other bros by sharing them online. Browse through scores of custom user created levels and complete them to rate their Bro-ness.

The following features and content are planned in future updates via Early Access. Visit the Steam Community Hub, Broforce Forums, or follow Free Lives (@Free_Lives) on Twitter for news and requests for feedback on future updates.

New Bros: Broforce is always looking for a few good bros to join the team. Free Lives will create a plethora of new bros and are always interested in hearing your ideas of powerful heroes that can bare the burden of being a bro.

New Missions: New missions will be added to the world map through development and will extend to new environments and locales.

Tweaks and Polish: Broforce is pretty rocking now but Free Lives will be iterating, tweaking, and polishing to see what works and what needs more time in the oven. Feedback welcome, bros!

Explosions 3.0: What is Broforce without better explosions? Ongoing revisions and additions to the explosions are tantamount to fulfilling Broforce's destiny.

Sound Design and Music: Continuing work to revise and add new music and sound design to celebrate freedom in your ears.

THROW AWAY THAT FRAPPUCCINO!! BURN THOSE DESIGNER JEANS!! TURN OFF THAT LADY GAGA!!

GRILL UP A BIG STEAK!! FLEX THOSE PECS!! SHAVE THAT SQUARE JAW WITH A KNIFE!! LIGHT THAT CIGAR WITH A FLAME THROWER!!

IT'S TIME TO LIBERATE!!!!!!!

I laughed my butt off playing this game...again...and again. Even dying is funny.

Being a huge fan of good ol' 2D games and growing up all the way through the 80s, I had to get this game. I've only played by myself and haven't messed with all the other features or even tried building a level yet but I highly recommend this for fun time mega carnage.

This game proves that even with all the hi-res graphics, thick plots, and over-the-top sex and violence in other games, there's still a place for "8-bit" low-res ACTION!!!!

Broforce is an amusing dose of satirical patriotism with an added blast from the past appearance from over 10 action hero characters from the 1980's and beyond. The gun play is fast, colorful, with explosions and blood flying across your screen like the 4th of July fireworks show. The game has expanded a lot since it's initial appearance on steam, so it gets a plus for steady developer support. IMO this game works best with friends, where Neo, Rambo, Robocop and more can fight side by side in the middle of the Vietnamese jungles. Alone the game can begin to bore you, so consider that when going to purchase. The game is not a very demanding one graphically, so most current pc users should be able to play with no issue. Remember the game is still not finished so expect features to be tweaked and others possibly added.

Overall this game is a barrel of laughs with friends and provides a lot of value. Get used to the electric guitars playing everytime you complete a mission!

I HAVE COME TO BRING FREEDOOM TO YOU COMMUNIST ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ , EVEN IF YOU DONT WANT ME TO! 'CAUSE I'M MURRICA YOU LITTLE ♥♥♥♥♥, AND I'M HERE TO KILL THE BADDIES, GET THE HOT ♥♥♥ CHICK AND SAVE THE MOTHER♥♥♥♥ING DAY !

If you enjoy the days of Contra and Super Mario Bros there really is no better place to turn than Broforce. This game is an intense ride of nostalgia, guns, smoke and explosions! With content continuously being added this is certainly an example of a developer doing Early Access right.

Tons of "Bros" to choose from of both the male and female variety. The campaign and level editor supplied workshop levels will keep you entertained for hours.

Best part is that it includes local coop/competition that will have you and your friends roaring for hours!

Do you love old 70's and 80's action movies and even some of the newer stuff?Do you love action heros such as Stalone and Schwarzenegger?Do you love the in your face testostarone feeling everytime you destroy something?Is your idea of liberating a place carpet bombing the ♥♥♥♥ out of it with a healthy dose of democracy and FREEDOM?!Then this is the game for you! Take up the roles of some of the best action heroes in history against terrorists and what appears to be Satan in a business suit (because lets face it, all corporate managers are demonic ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥s) in action nostalgia chaos and destruction! Rain gunfire upon your enemies as Rambro or give the terrorists a Korean Barbeque with B. A Broracus! Are you more of the calm, cool, collected man? Then place deady TNT traps as MacBrover consisting of a rubberband, a beer can, and a post-it note!

Absurdly good 2D shooter. Like Super Crate Box, if you could blow up the universe. Campaign is reasonably long now, and will get longer later, presumably. Don't be scared by the 'early access' thing- it is a genuinely good game as it is.

Also, it's really ♥♥♥♥ing good looking. You may not notice when you're blowing things up, but it is an incredibly well-done pixel art aesthetic.

Will Smith's best performance to date. The casting director of this movie knew what they were doing.

In all seriousness: I had way more fun with this than I anticipated. The gameplay is top notch, starting off relatively easy and simple, and working its way up to levels that you will die repeatedly, happy to do so, only to come back knowing that you can do it better this time.

Add to that Steam Workshop support and a level creator, and this game is already chock-full of content. The devs also release frequent and meaningful updates and maintain a presence on the forums.